“Disaster Movie” is not, as you might have guessed, a parody of disaster movies. But it is a disaster.

The third of this year’s junk-drawer parody movies (it was preceded by “Meet the Spartans” and “Superhero Movie”), “Disaster” is the worst of a not-very-good bunch. Loosely inspired by “Cloverleaf” — and “inspired” is not really a word that applies here — it’s a mish-mash of feeble references to “High School Musical, “A Night at the Museum,” “Juno,” “The Love Guru,” “No Country for Old Men” and other films. It’s all capped off by an “I’m Dating Matt Damon” song that is also terrible, but does have the virtue of summarizing all the film’s movie references in a three-minute sequence that will only waste a little of your time when it inevitably pops up on YouTube.

The main feeling the movie left me with is: Where do these no-talents get the chutzpah to make fun of anyone? For instance, I get the sentiment behind the Juno character announcing, “I only speak in overly written, clever-for-clever’s-sake quips,” but, whatever flaws “Juno” had, it was a masterpiece next to this worthless drivel. Oh, and just to discourage any Carmen Electra fans who might want to see “Disaster” because of her, she’s barely in it and all of her clothes stay on.

Chris Hewitt was the Pioneer Press movie critic and then an arts and entertainment reporter from 1993 to 2017.

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